Working with Acrobat Distiller, fonts, and more

The Adobe® Acrobat® Distiller® application converts PostScript language page descriptions into Portable Document Format (PDF) files. The Acrobat Distiller control interface, present in version 7 and later of Acrobat Distiller for the Macintosh and Microsoft Windows platforms, allows other applications to programmatically control the Distiller program.

Fonts are an important consideration whether you are an application developer writing applications capable of embedding fonts or accessing embedded fonts within a file or using Distiller with font technology.

The documents below describe the guidelines that are followed whenever Adobe software considers whether to embed fonts in files, whether through initial creation or transformation of existing files. There are also documents describing the Acrobat Distiller control interface, Distiller considerations for finding, embedding, and subsetting fonts, font metrics by platform and CMaps by language, and advanced user features in Acrobat.

Get the PDF Open parameters for Acrobat 9.0. These allow you to open a PDF file using a URL or command that specifies both the file to be opened plus actions to be performed once the file is opened. (Jun 2008)